One of the most basic decisions you will make is that of what roles to use or define for the gear and what privileges to give to each of the roles. The pre-defined portal roles are:

The PAF Tag Library provides tags that gear and portal developers can use to check for these roles and to grant or deny access to pages and content accordingly. You can also create additional roles for your gear if you need them, by adding them to profile repository and then using them in your gear code as necessary.

For information on the security tags in the PAF Tag Library, refer to the Portal Security chapter of this manual. For information on creating roles, refer to the Personalization Guide for Business Users.